Writerly Ways
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cornerofmadnessReally all I have time to do this week is go. OMG it's little over a week to Nanowrimo then flail around until I slam into something and with luck i'll wake up and it's decemeber.
I do have a title, Voluntary Nightmare since most of the main characters could have walked away from this and done nothing. It would have been easy to do nothing but they took the hard path to try and change things. I have most of the main characters in my head and have done for years.
I have a 'book cover' photo and should pass it on to someone with better photo editing software than I do, especially since my very broad hint to coworker L was a real swing and a miss. Instead she tells me about the brand new Mac she bought herself (i.e. you now have TWO old macs, i just wanna borrow it for a half hour).
I know I have at least 25K of scenes in my head right now. It's the back half and finding TIME to write that scares me shitless especially since I still have an entire unit of lecture material, the hardest one yet, to complete. Hold me.
ANd with that in mind I'll skip the word count bars tonight and get back to school work.
I do have a title, Voluntary Nightmare since most of the main characters could have walked away from this and done nothing. It would have been easy to do nothing but they took the hard path to try and change things. I have most of the main characters in my head and have done for years.
I have a 'book cover' photo and should pass it on to someone with better photo editing software than I do, especially since my very broad hint to coworker L was a real swing and a miss. Instead she tells me about the brand new Mac she bought herself (i.e. you now have TWO old macs, i just wanna borrow it for a half hour).
I know I have at least 25K of scenes in my head right now. It's the back half and finding TIME to write that scares me shitless especially since I still have an entire unit of lecture material, the hardest one yet, to complete. Hold me.
ANd with that in mind I'll skip the word count bars tonight and get back to school work.
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Date: 2011-10-23 09:19 pm (UTC)Voluntary Nightmare sounds like it has potential, especially since you know the characters and have scenes planned. I have bupkus beyond a sketchy plot and a story concept, so I'm just plowing into the story per usual and hoping it gels instead of unraveling on me. At least with this one, I can fall back on sex scenes.
Colleges should grant one-month sabbaticals for staff members doing NaNo, I swear (literacy is important to colleges, right?) And libraries should do more to publicize/support NaNo. I don't think our library staff even knows NaNo exists, never mind offering write-ins or other encouragement.
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Date: 2011-10-23 09:47 pm (UTC)thanks. I'm hoping it holds together too. Sex scenes are good for that. Toshiro and Maru will thank you.
snort, I'd love to see that. Our library allows me to book it for nano but other than that it does nothing
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